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Kristin, forgive me if this topic is premature.At today's Looney Lounge, I took a peek at an early draft of Pyramid Primer #2. Like its predecessor, this 28-page full size pamphlet contains space…Continue

As we all know, rows on the Chrononauts timeline generally contain eight cards. if you're suing the Gore Years, there's an extra row that's only five cards long. This must be an invitation to add…Continue

In UberChrononauts, the universe is destroyed if, at any time, there are 13 paradoxes within any four consecutive rows of the timeline. (This is especially important to Crazy Joe, the Lost ID who…Continue

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ABOUT MY HISTORY WITH LOONEY LABS...

Chrononauts brought me here in 2003. Martian Chess was my portal to the pyramids in 2005. FluxxBuxx contest finalist in 2005. Appointed deputy admin of the IceWiki in 2007. 2010 Ice Awards panelist. First gamed with the Looneys in 2011.

ABOUT ME...

I'm an engineer, explorer, zookeeper, father, librarian, aquanaut, bureaucrat, food alchemist, amateur time traveler, and misplaced antiquarian. I've been designing games since I was ten.

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"Ryan, I know a lot of people that make their own games. But you're different.... you make games that other people want to play."

"It would be hard for me to choose 12 games without a LOT of thought about quality and variety.
BUT, I am posting to suggest that many of them (if not all) should be selected based on having Rainbow and Xeno, to help promote sales and to reward those…"

"Alien City (yes it requires a piecepack, but it is a great game that I think about more than I play)
Autumn Ash (this tricky strategy game takes a little effort to learn, but it's also a good game to aspire to once you own several sets of xeno…"

"I do agree that is a great game. I don't know how they would put this in the current IceSheet format considering the ideal state for playing this game is one Xeno stash and one Rainbow. But, in terms of other requirements, it's fairly…"

"I don't know which games are in it, so I'm not sure which to suggest, but guessing about games probably not in it which I enjoy playing (some pretty regularly), I'll propose:
Tic-Tac-Doh (simple classic, needs only 1 stash)
Stack…"

Kristin, forgive me if this topic is premature.At today's Looney Lounge, I took a peek at an early draft of Pyramid Primer #2. Like its predecessor, this 28-page full size pamphlet contains space for the rules of approx. 12 popular pyramid games.I noticed that there were a couple blank spaces on the cover, suggesting that there was more space left in the draft for a few more games. Perhaps us Starship Captains could help you select some worthwhile fan designs?See More

"10 March 2015: Michael O'Connor and I met on location at Titan Games in Timonium, MD. Titan is almost exclusively dedicated to Magic&Minis, but it's close to home. For a combination of personal reasons, we decided to take a…"

"I am the admin for the IceWiki. Please send me your user name and I can add your account to the regulars whitelist.
However, you still won't be able to make edits. We are having some trouble with MediaWiki and the fix is above my…"

"8 January 2015: Michael was in a rolland-move mood, so we played several dice-based pyramid games. First up was two or three plays of Pink Hijinks, which I taught to Michael. Then we revisited Treehouse and IceDice. Then, breaking…"

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When I go to a Looney Lounge, I always come prepared for the mental quest to play as much of the Looney catalog as possible. This time I did well in that pursuit. With my wife and daughter in accompaniment, we filled some seats at a game of Monster Fluxx that was just starting up. Monster Fluxx happens to be my daughter's favorite game, which she can play well enough even though she can't read. She…

I host monthly pyramid gatherings at Labyrinth Puzzles & Games in downtown DC on the first Thursday of each month. 6-8pm. It's usually just two or three pyramid fans, plus whatever bystanders from the GCOM crowd that we can press-gang into action.

In the past, I have written nightly recaps as comments on the Event listing, but LL has requested that I write them as Event Reports instead. One Report per month would be too much, so I'm going to combine them into this one thread.

I played IceDice with my niece and nephew, who are 4 and 6 years old, respectively. They had no trouble at all learning the game, though my niece did have some difficulty matching the size die with the pyramid sizes. Both kids had a roller coaster ride of fun with IceDice. Their eyes glowed with the thrill of victory (getting to steal someone else's pyramid) and the agony of defeat (going bust when pushing for the Rainbow bonus). My nephew even won the game (which I had to point out to…

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Thanks Ryan, it'll be a day or two before I can really start doing anything and I'll have to find the errors I intended to correct again by then. Up to my eyeballs at the moment. My boss can be a real slave-driver. And since I'm my boss and I just saw what I wrote, I'd better get back to work. ;)

Hi Ryan, could you please add me (iKarith) to editors on the icehousegames.org wiki? Don't intend any major edits until I get the hang of things, but I can fix a few stale links and typos I've stumbled across for now. As noted in my profile, I'm actually very new to pyramid gaming—but I learned eight games in like a week. Am I an instant addict, or is albinism a genetic trait of Martian ancestry? Ooooh…

Are you still doing the Starship Captain Training sessions at Labyrinth? Someone went to attend one recently, and was told by Labyrinth that they were not holding them anymore, due to other events they wanted that time slot for. If you are no longer running them, could you adjust the repeating event so it no longer shows on the fan club calendar? I think someone else just signed up to possibly attend, and we wouldn't want them taking the trouble to show up just to find out it's not happening.

I was not aware of that aluminium pyramid. What is the idea of it? Like i told you before, i choose a map showing the states where slavery was permited. It is apparent that the distribution of the slaves was not equaly distributed in the states. On your old map we can see that there was plenty of slaves in the valley of the missisipi, in and around the state of Virginia. Anyway, my firts idea when i showed part of your starship captains map was to make a mirror between the number of captains in the north and in the south, and the johnny rebs are still outnumbered like during the civil war. Now i think we better lay it down before the Looneys told us that we are out of the main subject here.

Hi Ryan! I joined the Ning site after you compiled you SSCL v2. You asked for anyone who's interested in an update to ping your wall, so I thought I'd let you know. Also, there are 61 captains now, so there may be a few other new lists as well.